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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

THE following from the Salina Her
aid is about as sensible view of the
drouth as we have yet perused. We
submit it to our readers:
The drouth is broken. All the dam
age that has been or is to result from
the dry weather can be easily deter
survive the losses caused by the drouth
can be readily told. Whether the
country is to stand still. advance OF
retrograde can be seen by one about as
well as another. SIT is an i'll wind that
blows no good, - is an old adage, and
while the dry weather would have been
averted if possible, the Herald can see
some good that will result. The
drouth has been quite general. Almost
| all the states have suffered, and the
most of them far worse than Kansas.
The first noticeable result will be the
using up of the surplus corn and wheat
of the country. There has been over
production going on for the past few
years, and the result has been that
more grain is raised than is consumed;
hence low prices. AT the prevailing
prices farmers didn't make expenses as
a rule, during the past five years.
While they may not be prepared for the
dry year" they will undoubtedly be
benefited in the long run. Prices will
go up and remain higher for at least
five years. Plenty of rain, such as we
are likely to have this fall, will make
fall pasture good. Wheat and rye can
be used for winter pasture and stock
can get along with very little feed
The result on Kansas will be hardly
felt, and not at all in cities like SalIna
whose future was fixed long before the
dry weather set in. The citizens of Sa
lima have no occasion to complain
Trade in all branches will be good here
and improvements will go right along
The man who would allow the droutl
to change or stop single improvement
that he contemplates to make has MOI
the nerve necessary to become a sue
cessful Salina citizen.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

ARGoNIA CLIPPER: Quit raising
wheat and thereby diminish the supply
on hand and starve the .chinch bugs
out at the same time, Raise more
corn, oats and tame grasses, with plen-
ty of hogs, cattle and horses to feed it
to, and in a few years our farmers will
find themselves in much better shape,
able to pay off some of their heavy
mortgages, put their farms in better
state of cultivation, live happier and
make Kansas what she really should be
the banner state in the union.
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rHE DAN.
A Repors Made to Ghe CITY cOuneii by
Kn0apAar ASnrawf

LkA6lA1cGE SAEO4e-
Engineer Strout made a report to the
mayor and city council last night, in
which he reported that he had found
stone and work of an Objectionable
character, and that "a portion of the
same had already been removed and
replaced with good masonry. He also
reports that other portions will be ex-
amined, and, where found not comply
ing with the specifications, will be re-
placed. The report is only partial
one, and portion of it claims that GER
tain parts of tie work are of better
character than was necessary, al
though the specifications called for the
better class of work.
The stone used in the dam and abut-
ments is of good quality, large, well
dressed, with good beds and joints, and
of twenty-inch courses, with good
binders and headers. Mr.. Strout as
serts that while about two-thirds of I
abutments, according to the specifca-
lions, could have been made of small
stone, yet it has been mainly construct
ed of large undressed stone, and is q
better class of work than was required
The last clause of the report says:
1.-The plan indicates bevel on the two
upper courses of the dam, forming a
lock, so as to prevent the under courses
from being removed by drifts. In the
progress of the work doweling was
talked of by the engineer and contract
or, as a substitute, but both have beer
only partially done. do not recon-
mend doweling,"
AS we understand it, this report il
but a preliminary, and farther invSs
tigatiOn is still being made by the waite
works committee, a full report o
which will probably be made to tn,
council and will possibly appear in tn
| ninntpS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

THE Prison Mirror is the name of a
four-page paper edited and published
by the convicts in the penitentiary ut
Saltwater, Minnesota. The subscrip-
ton price is one dollar a year, and the
earnings of the enterprise are TO be de-
voted 10 the purchase of bot ks for the
prison library. The Mirror enjoys the
distinction of being the only journal
that is now or ever has been published
by convicts. Lew p. Shoemaker is
the editor, and among the stockholders
are the notorious Younger brothers. 1t
appears from a statement made in the
Mirror that the Saltwater prison now
shelters 412 inmates, 4O5 of whom are
males and seven females, and 1913 of
whom are white and nineteen colored.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, III, Aug. q, 1881.
HoGS-Receipts, 600 head; market opened
strong at yesterdays figures, later ruled weak
and declined sc: grasser6, s4DG44-s5; light,
s5.0095.4o; rough packing, 4-s0G5e5 %: mixed
and heavy packing and shipping, s5-10f55. 20.
CATTLE-Receipts, IL go head: market was
slower, but good grades steady; native beeyee,
S300G510; cows and mixed. 81 -60ESz.6o stock.
ers and feeders, s201I325: Texans. - 5000. IS
Inuftons, s3.0o0435; Texans, e3-0083.65s west
ern. S31543.70.
WHEAT-Market easier; No red. cash.
as 3-I6c: September, IS 916c; October, 73lzc.
CoRN-Easy; No. cash, 40lzc; September,
40sSe; October, Al 7-l6c.
OATs-Steady; No. 9 cash. z41zc; Septem
Der, z45<c: October, S5f<e.
PoRK-Market about steady; year. s11-75;
LARD9Sfeady: cash, q 42K: September,
s642Iz6t5 -. October, &c. Short ribs, s7-a5.
WHIsKY-SLn
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NATIONAL NEWS.
JAIL CONTRACT LET.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 23.-The
contract for the construction of the
buildings for the United States peni-
Tertiary for Utah Territory at Salt
Lake City has been awarded to the
PauIy Jail Building and Manufacture
ing Company, of st. Louis, at $48 600.
NEW hanks ORGANIZED.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The follow
ing national banks have been author
lied to begin business: Abilene
National Bank. Abilene, Kas., capital,
$50. 600; First National Bank, of
Scandal, Kas.. capital. Sc. 900.
REDEEMING TRADE DOLLARS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Undef the
law the time allowed for the redemp-
tion of trade dollars win expire on the
third Of next month. The amount re-
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We clip the following from an ex-
change that confesses that it is
stolen. 1t is a comfort to a
weary plodding editor to know
that after the trials of life are past he
will be numbered among those who
have ''come up through much tribula-
tions." The story is as follows:
An editor died and slowly wended his
way down to where he supposed a
warm reception awaited him. The
devil met him and said: For many
years thou hast borne the blame for the
bad spelling that the printer has gotten
off in the paper. The paper alasi for 50;
alasl the 81 has often failed to come in.
The printers have bedeviled thee for
wages Saturday night when thou hast
not burned farthing to thy name.
Men have taken the paper without pay
ing for it, and cursed thee for not get
ting up a better paper. Thou hast been
called dead beat by freight conduc-
tors and dead beat by passenger con-
ductorS, when thou hast shown thy an
nual pass to their envious gaze. All
these things thou hast borne in silence.
Thou cans t not come in here.1 And
he fired him. AS he did so he muir
INJURED to himself, Heaven S his home,
and besides, if we had let him come in
here, he would have been dunning his
delinquent subscribers and thus created
diScord in my kingdom
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25
THE following from the Dubuque
Telegraph, in reference to the Georgia
Glenn hill. strikes the nail on the head

Telegraph, in reference to the Georgia
Glenn bill, strikes the nail on the head:
The hill introduced in the Georgia
legislature making it felony to teach
colOred children in white schools or
white children in colOred schools does
not meet with the approval of DR.. A TIL
Gus G. Haywood, for twenty years the
president of Emory college at Oxford,
and the most eminent educator in the
state. Among other things the Doctor
says:
There is Georgia law against in
termarriage, a law more violated ten to
one, if not in the letter in the reality
and spirit of it, than the law against
mixed schools. If now the legislature
will make us a law placing the parents
of mulatto children in the chain-gang
it would be worth while.'
This is sound sense. While Georgia
tolerates the crime to which DIR. Hay
good refers, it is ridiculous for it to pro-
vide by statute that the preceptor who
teaches white child in a colored school
or vice versa shall be sent to the peni-
Tertiary and then farmed out to a con-
Vict labor contractor. The idea en-
bodied in the Glenn bill is barbarous,
and if the measure shall become law,
the circumstance will reveal Georgia to
be more than quarter of century
behind the age. But fortunately, even
if it becomes a law, the bill will not be
valid. 1t is in conflict with the four
teenth amendment, and if a case
should ever be brought to test its con-
stitutionality, the United States su-
preme court will annihilate every ves-
tige of it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

ALTHOUGH the army officers have
thus far failed to find any evidences of
Indian disturbances in Colorado, the
people of that state are thoroughly
aware of the fact that the redskins are
on the war path, and prepared to do
inestimable damage. After several
hundred settlers have been murdered
the war department will undoubtedly
be willing to admit that there has been
some trouble, and will then be ready
to treat with the savages for sur
render. This has been the history of
Indian outbreaks for years.-Beacon.
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COUNCIL PROCEKDINGS.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
A IL. 30 nCosn q

OHAMBERS,
Aug. %, 1887, 8 o'clock, p. m.
Special meeting of the Council. Pres
ent Mayor Weaver and all the council
men except McCown.
Clerk read the call.
City Engineer Strout made written
report concerning the Neosho River
dam which was read and fled.
j. D. Cook, Engineer, being present
the Council advised with him concern
ing the dam and waterwOrks, concern
ing several matters upon which the
Council desired information.
On motion the Committee on Water.
works and engineer were authorized tC
locate a burrow pit when such location
was necessary.
Adjourned.
E. M. FORDE,
CITY Clerk.
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deemed up to date is a little over
81 400, 600. The number of these dol
lars estimated TO be held in this coun-
try by the Director of the Mint in his
report to Congress was 81 ,O36 600, and
the slight excess in redemptions is &C
counted for by importations from China
and Japan.
CLEVELAND WILL ATTEND.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-PreSident
Cleveland will go to Philadelphia on
the 18th of September to attend the
| centennial constitutional celebration.
He viii probably be accompanied by
Mrs CLEVELAND
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READING NEWS.

READING, Aug. as.-George Retzer
is in town again. He really likes it
here better than on his western farm.
Born-A son, to Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E.
Dubois.
There is to be merry game of base
ball on the Reading grounds next
Thursday. 1t is to be between the
scrub Club and the Fat Men. Ed.
Gaughn, Till Swan, G. w. Douglas,
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PERSONAL.

VIM. Ernst, ex-County Treasurer,
was in the city yesterday.
Miss Jennie Newly, the temper
ance advocate, is in the city, the guest
of Mrs. NJ. S. Piper.
DR.. j. A. Young is reported as be-
ing down with rheumatism at Wagon
Wheel Gap, Colorado. He cannot get
around except on clutches.
L. Severy returned Monday from
Cascade, Colo, where he has been for
some time past. He has large interests
in and near that place which make il
agreeable for him occasionally to com.
bine business with pleasure in a trip to
that already quite famous city.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

COMMENTING on the growing disin-
clinatiOn toward matrimony among
young society men, an eastern writer
says that the serious problem, "What
shall we do with our girls?'' has been
forced on the attention of many pa
rents. Well, the girls are solving the
problem pretty fast by learning how to
take care of themselves without the
help of the young society men. The
American girl has no idea of being a
"dead-head.'
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

IT has been noticed that in climates
having difference of 20 degrees in
temperature between the hot and cold
seasons, railroad track of the length
Of 400 miles is some 33S yards longer in
summer than in winter; that is, though
of course the length of the road remains
the same, expansion forces the metal
closer together, making an aggregate
closing up of space between the rails of
nearly q yard in each mile.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

Neighbor, if you are troubled with
your kidneys, liver or chronic in
digestion you will find Balyeat's Fig
Tonic strikes at the root and removes
all the impurities of the blood. No
cure no pay. Sample bottles will be
furnished to any. physician desiring to
try it in his practice. Price SOC and 81.
For sale by the following druggists
Ben Wheldon, Chas Ryder, J. a.
Moore, D. w. Hainer d. w. Morris
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Accomplishes nothing of worthiness.
The Quaker Medicine Company ask a
trial of DR.. Watson's Specific Cough
Cure and request you to report your
experience to your druggist, neighbor
and suffering humanity. No cure,
no pay required. Price SOC and 81.
For sale by the following druggists:
Ben Wheldon, Chas Ryder, j. A.
Moore, D. W. Hainer and d. W.
Morris.
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At Kansas Ctlz.

KANSAS CITY, No, Aug. "a, 1887.
The Kansas City Live Stock Market Is
reported especially for the EMPORIA DAILY
NEWS by FISH. KICK & Co, Exchange build.
ing, Kansas City Stock Yards
CATTLE-Receipts, 2,eO0 head; market was
steady at yesterdays prices.
HOGS-Receipts, 500 head: market strong
and 55I0c higher: bulk, Is. IJ6o5 q: tops g 20;
mixed packers and shippers, 6. I01s525; choice
s. 2Jsl535; light mixed, s5.00G5.15; lights and
pigs, 81 1G554.95.
The Daily Indicator reports:
wHEAT-Market steady; No. red, none
on the market; No. soft cash, Csc bid &c
asked.
Consolidated steady: No. cash, axe
bid, 355l C asked; September, 35Ac asked; De-
tober, 351zc bid. 551Ie asked; year, 351zc asked
May. sales al SIC
OATs-No. cash, z31zc bid.
RYE-No cash. no bids nor offers.
EGGs-StFong; 1jc per dozen.
BUTTER-Unchanged
HAY-Fancy small baIed, $500.
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a. ~ ou1a.

ST. LOUIS, MO- Aug. 2, I58I.
CArTLE-Receipts. Cos head: market strong;
fair to choice heavy native steers, sS.Sg4.e0;
butchers, S3.4SgA00: Texans and Indians,
29oG3T5-
Hoes Receipts, Leo head: market strong;
choice heavy and butchers e5-SG9550: pack
sHEEP-Reeeipts, 1.GgD heads market strong.
WHKAT-Market weak; No red, cash, 695z
September, S91ze: October, lie
CORx-Aarket weak: No. cash, 3szG ~
September. 81 &c: October, Sic
OArs-Market steadys No. cash, A1ke;
September. 24skc; October, S5xc.
PoRK-Sfb00-
LARE-SG151.
WaIgKF-EiGh
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RnpOria II-HarIford O

The game yesterday at Kelso park
was witnessed by between one and two
hundred people and it ended in the
seventh inning in quarrel over the de-
cisions of the umpire. The Hartford
nine refused to obey the umpire and so
it came to close. The boys should be
willing to take their medicine or quit
playing. People pay to see finished
game, not q quarrel.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

THE supreme court of Kansas has
just decided that a purchaser of real
estate who accepts quit claim deed Is
not a purchaser in good faith, and a
record of such quit claim deed cannot
hold the land as against the grantee in
q warranty deed from the same grantor
executed before, but recorded after the
quit claim deed. This decision will
cause titles to be examined more closely
than ever before.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

THE old saying, "alI signs fail in a
dry season" was verified night before
last, when the editor of the Republican
was predicting the weather by the new
moon, which, he said was dry one, as
'.an Indian could hang his powder horn
on it" easily. In less than three hours
after the prediction we had the coolest
and heaviest rain that has visited us for
some time, and it has been rainy wealth
er ever since.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-25

THE Wichita Journal of yesterday
prints something which it labels "City
Marshal w. w. Haines.r If Mr..
Haines looks anything like the alleged
picture, there won't be much left of
-Wichita's boom ii he is allowed to run
loose, as he will scare everybody out of
town. Possibly this is what they have
to umpire the base ball games down
there. If so, we understand why our
boys lost the first game Yesterday.
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AMERICUS NEWS.

NLANS"s mug <O'
Miss Lizzie McNab, of Poland, Ohio,
a cousin of Albert Lowry, came in yes
terday on the train from the west,
whittier she had been visiting a couple
of brothers. She has several relatives
here among the Gibbons, Stewards
and LoWry's.
While Rev. A. r. Rankin's horse
was hitched up to the buggy yesterday
afternoon, it became united and upset
the vehicle, throwing itself on its back.
1t was extricated with but slight dam
age to itself and the buggy.
Everybody is keeping quiet expect
ing a big time at the convention tltis
afternoon, Immediately after which
several fractured states" will be sold
at auction.
Corn is nearly all in the shock and
one of the most laborious jobs of a
farmers life will soon be over for this
year. BURLoW.
The best of meats at White & Shiel
bly's.
Henning's to buy or sell your pro-
duce.
Gasoline at Bonds.
Domestic baking powder for sale by
r. Hennlng. One large dish pan or tin
water bucket given away with pound
can.
25 lbs good boiling meat for 81 at
White s. Shiebley's.
Beef from five pounds for 10 cents to
three pounds of steak for quarter at
Bircket'S.
A car of new four-Union Pacific,
II. S. and Supreme-can't be beat in
price and quality; delivered free in
the city, at Tressler 81 LowTy's.
Sirloin and round steak at 81 cents at
the Blue Front meat market.
Examine the goods on our cheap
counter. New job lots every week, at
j. D. Gibson's.
Fresh cabbage, fruits and vegetables
received daily at Henning's.
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uon NV GraslY /.

The Statesman, Scholor and True
American, set an example worthy of
reflection for all True Americans.
Healing wounds that no methods ex-
cept those used by Heaps Camphorated
Arnica Salve which is sold on its merits
for any use that salve can be used.
No cure, no pay. For sale by the
foil owing druggists. Ben Wheldon
Chas. Ryder, J. A. Moore, D. w
Hainer, and ID. w, Morris.
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In another column in this issue f.
NJ. Chaffee announces himself as a can
didate for trustee of Jackson township.
Mr.. Chaffee is man well known
throughout his township and in every
respect worthy the support and conf
dence of the people of that township
and if elected win prove an efficient of
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y WAsEINdToN correspondent has
been figuring out the amount paid by
the government in pensions. The ag-
gregate paid in twenty-one years, 1867
to 1887, both inclusive, is $685., 63I ,O9s.
In 1878 there were 90, sO4 pensioners; in
1882, l7S, 1854; at the present time, 265,-
06A
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PENsIoNs have inst been oranted

PENSIONS have just been granted to
the following Kansas soldiers: John
Grauke of Harmed, George W. Ancell
of Beverly, D. Money of Nelson,
William Nevil of Haysville, Ezra Kes
setring of Central City, William Elem
ing of Winfield, Maj. }. w. Spencer Of
Columbus, Harrison H. Hughes of
Nicodemus, Byron t. Parkhurst of
Holton, James Shearn of Wyandotte,
John B. Riley of Smithland, Sam P.
Harding of Paola, Elanson Ward of
Glen Elder, John F. Mcclure and VIM.
G. Allison of lola, Elijah II. Furron of
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GENERAL BUCKNER wants to be in
stalled as Governor of Kentucky with
as little fuss as possible, but the Dem
ocrats of that state intend to make it
an occasion memorable for display.
1.-The Hero of Fort Donelson' is what
they call the govern0r-elect.
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AT the meeting of the Knights of
Labor of the state of New York, just
closed, Mr.. McMackin, leader of the
organization, said: ''We certainly will
defeat Mr.. Cleveland, and there is
every reason why we should. He has
never been friend to the workingmen
and they know it.r
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A LAW was recently enacted by the
Ohio legislature declaring the husband
to be the head of the family. This may
be all right according to law, but the
head depends great deal on whether
the wife chooses to obey the law or not.
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IT is the general opinion of the Chi
cago press that the Chatsworth dis
aster will bring about repeal of the
Illinois law which limits damages in
case of death by railroad accident to
five thousand dollars. The disaster is
also likely to result in the substitution
of stone and iron for wooden bridges.
In the long run non-inflammable bridges
ara thu chaanaSt.
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HAVING bored 1900 feet without
finding gas, the Wichita company have
decided to bore in another location.
AS we understand it, they are deter
mined to either find gas or fill the
TOWNSHIP full of holes in the attempt
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PRoHIBTTIoNIsTs in Texas are trying
to account for their defeat. People at
q distance readily understand that the
reason is that the voters of Texas love
the juice, and would sooner do without
school houses than saloons.
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CANDIDATES,

So far as heard from the following
a complete list of candidates for Offic
at the coming election:
COUNTY TREASURER.
1. a. Taylor of Hartford.
ID. a. Stahl of Emporia.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
7. f. Mcmillan of Emporia.
L. Z. Hall of Emporia.
w. V. Phillips, Emporia.
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
o. J. Russell of Emporia.
L. II. Lewis of EmpOria-
+. S. Domm of Emporia.
J. +. Culver of Emporia.
E. Beck of Emporia township.
L. H. Spencer, of Reading.
Eliza Moore
II. Z. Norton, Emporia.
SHERIFF. ~
Waldo Wooster of Emporia.
u. Il. Romano of Emporia
Geo. Johnston of Pike.
COUNTY CLERK.
Roland Lakin of Empori;I.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
r. II. Edmiston of Emporia.
Arthur Milliken of Emporia.
Matthew Brown of Emporia.
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IN Germany worm has been discov-
cred that eats steel rails. The worm is
provided with sacks containing a cor
rOsive liquid. which softens the metal
and it is then devuured. Several rail
road accidents are attributed to this
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Ben Fowler was brought before the
justice of the peace Thursday on com
plant of A. s. Smith and fined IS and
costs, amounting to s11.30. The
amount was promptly paid. It is
claimed there were some extenuating
circumstances.